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AUSTIN – Relief from soaring summer gas prices may soon be on the way.
The Texas House tentatively adopted a measure Tuesday that would suspend the state's 20-cent gas tax through the summer months.
That would mean an immediate 20-cent drop in the price per gallon.
Right - until the oil companies jack up the price by 20 cents so that no one notices the difference. The tax itself may be a bad idea, but removing it now won't save the average Joe a penny in the long run.
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Governor Rick Perry signed an executive order in February requiring the immunization of 6th grade girls against an STD which could lead to cancer. One imagines he was concerned about saving young women's lives. Now that the state legislature has passed a bill to override his order, he won't veto it since the veto will be overriden anyway.
I guess it's OK for people to die then - that, or he never believed in it in the first place. At least take a stand, Governor.
(I admittedly got the idea for this post from a local talk radio show).
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Cate Blanchett looking creepily thin.
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Saw this bumper sticker on a car the other day. Have to admit it's funny.
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